Jimmy Kimmel Skewers Rob Ford: “Do You Think If You Had Gay Friends, You Would Not Wear that Tie?”

“Why are you here?” Jimmy Kimmel asked Toronto’s mayor, Rob Ford at the top of his interview last night. “What good could come of this?”

Ford began the interview in a jolly fashion, laughing off Kimmel’s increasingly pointed questions. But when the talk show host began showing a series of humiliating video clips of his interview subject at work (and play) up in Canada, it was clear Ford was wondering the same thing.

Kimmel didn’t lay off for the entirety of the interview, zinging a giggly Ford for eating too much, being unhealthy, and throwing candy canes at children.

“Why are you dressed as a magician?” he asked early on, indicating Ford’s black jacket and shirt, and bright red tie. “Are you homophobic? . . . . Do you think if you had gay friends, you would not wear that tie?”

The darkest part of the interview came when Kimmel asked Ford point-blank if he was an alcoholic. “You seem like a very nice guy to me, and if you are an alcoholic—which, you know, if you’re drinking enough that you can try crack in your 40s and not remember it—maybe that’s something you might want to think about talking to somebody about,” Kimmel said.

Ford replied, “Who among us hasn’t tried crack in a drunken stupor,” attempting to laugh off the charge. “I wasn’t elected to be perfect Jimmy, I was elected to clean up the mess, and that’s what I’ve done.”